What keeps the film from out-and-out miserabilism is a deadpan comic tone, a subtly brilliant command of cinematic language, and the extraordinarily gifted actress at its center.
05/01/08 10:55 PM
Tuya's Marriage (2008)
82 %
Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 9 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.8/10
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It is a fine and plaintive experience, more modern-day folklore than ethnographic study, and a wonderfully assured piece of cinema.
04/24/08 12:40 PM
Top Critic Graced with a captivating lead performance and artful cinematography.
04/04/08 01:51 PM
This small, sweet drama from Chinese director Wang Quang An is picturesque, romantic and unexpectedly droll tale of life in one the world's most remote regions.
04/04/08 12:53 PM
Tuya's Marriage has enough material to supply an entire year of a soap opera -- in Inner Mongolia, that is.
04/04/08 12:51 PM
Top CriticA compact near-masterpiece that combines a slow-motion romantic comedy with a docudrama-style portrait of a remote, nomadic culture as it is gradually eroded by the tides of the 21st century.
04/04/08 11:21 AM
Top Critic Tuya’s Marriage finds an austere beauty in a landscape of scrub and grassland ringed by forbidding slate-blue mountains.
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04/04/08 09:36 AM
Top Critic Story of a strong, independent, and resilient woman who is willing to do anything to save her family and her way of life in Inner Mongolia.
04/03/08 07:44 PM
We’ve watched Wang belabor this point to death, which doesn’t detract from the film’s grace notes, but also doesn’t exactly make this neorealistic chronicle of rural life the deepest of profeminist parables.
04/03/08 01:12 PM
The film's social commentary is so subtle, and arises so naturally from the plot, that Tuya's Marriage might be mistaken for simple, straightforward entertainment.
04/03/08 07:24 AM
[Director Wang Quan] still maintains an emotional remove from his subject, tracing the encroaching will of capitalism—as in the evolution from horses to motorcycles to cars—more clinically than poetically.
04/02/08 03:15 AM
Top Critic Tuya's Marriage can feel a tad overwritten, but in terms of its cultural and emotional portraits, the film's neo-realist authenticity is nonetheless striking.
03/31/08 09:55 AM
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